Only an internal revolution can have the power to heal our people of their murderous
sickness of causeless hatred. It is bound to bring complete ruin
upon
us. Only then will the old and young in our land realize how great
was their responsibility to those miserable arab refugees in whose towns we have
settled jews who were brought from afar; whose homes we have inheritied, whose
fields we now sow and harvest; the fruit of whose gardens, orchards, and vinyards
we gather; and in whose cities that we robbed, we put up houses of education,
charity and prayer while we babble and rave about being the 'people of the
book' and the 'light of nations."Famous Jewish philosopher Martin Buber's letter to fellow Jews, 1961.

How unpopular is this other side of the story, even for Jews? Consider
these words from the well read and prestigious Jewish magazine Tikkun:
 We are saddened by the anger and loss of support we face for our willingness
to speak the truth as we see it. Nov/Dec 2000 In their lead editorial
 Murdering The Spirit Of God,  they stated:  We as Jews and
other peoples of faith can no longer shut our eyes or close our ears to the
suffering of the Palestinian people. We want the world to know that in
this period there were Jews who stood up and proclaimed their commitment to a
Judaism that would fight for a world in which every human being is treated with
the respect and the sense of sanctity that are central to a spiritual vision of
the world.

These Jews know their day of pride will come eventually
just as those similar Muslims did who tried to warn their fellow co-religionists
during the Fatamid and Seljuk periods. These two periods of errant
Muslim rule spoiled Islam's proud record of their almost 1000 years
of tolerant rule of Jeruselum. Many believe this was what helped to bring
about the Crusades. And, there are other prominent Jews who have been complaining
all along.

Erich Fromm, the well known psychiatrist / philosopher and
author of the
still popular book The Art Of Loving,
written way back in 1958:

It is often said that the Arabs fled, that they left the country voluntarily,
and that they therefore bear the responsibility for losing their property and
their land. It is true that in history there are some instances - in Rome and
in France during the Revolutions when enemies of the state were proscribed and
their property confiscated. But in general international law, the principle holds
true that no citizen loses his property or his rights of citizenship; and
the citizenship right is de facto a right to which the Arabs in Israel have much
more legitimacy than the Jews.

Just because the Arabs fled? Since
when is that punishable by confiscation of property and by being barred from returning
to the land on which a people's forefathers have lived for generations?
Thus, the claim of the Jews to the land of Israel cannot be a realistic political
claim. If all nations would
suddenly claim territories in which their forefathers had lived two thousand years
ago, this world would be a madhouse. (Erich Fromm, in Jewish Newsletter,
5.19.1958).

This statement was verified by Russian immigrant Nathan
Chofshi, who had come to Palestine in 1908. He watched the very people
who had welcomed him suddenly become unwelcome and afraid for their lives.

We Jews forced the Arabs to leave....Here was a people who
lived on its
own land for 1,300 years. We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees.
And still we dare to slander and malign
them, to besmirch their name.
Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and of trying to undo some of
the evil we committed by helping these unfortunate refugees, we justify our terrible
acts
and even attempt to glorify them.
(Nathan Chofshi, in Jewish
Newsletter, 2.9.1959)

This same lead editorial in the Nov/Dec Tikkun shows that Jews who stand
for justice have not and will not forget this:

 Israel has never
been willing to acknowledge its moral culpability for expelling hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians in the 1948 war, and today acknowledges no responsibility
for the fate of several million of their descendents still living in refugee
camps around the Arab world and within the Occupied Territories. Though
a Jew born in Brooklyn has an automatic  right of return  to Israel and
will be given financial support by the government of Israel, Palestinians who
were born in Israel and subsequently expelled have no right to return, . . .

Who is it that hates who?

Here are a few enlightening and little known comparisons. Can a Muslim
eat the kosher food of a Jew? Yes. Can a Jew eat the Halal food of
a Muslim? No! Can a Muslim be permitted to marry a Jew? Yes.
Can a Jew be permitted to marry a Muslim? No! Can a Muslim
pray in a synagogue? Yes. Can a Jew pray in a Mosque. No!
Do many Muslims read and revere the Torah? Yes. Do many Jews read
and revere the Quran? No! Could a Jew immigrate to reside in the
city of Jerusalem when it was under those hundreds of years of Muslim rule?
Yes. Can a Muslim immigrate to reside today in Jerusalem? No!
Do Muslims hate Jews? NO, NO and NO. Do
Muslims hate the State of Israel? This answer is only a slightly
complex it depends. Is the State of Israel a secular democracy like America,
or is it a theocracy? Muslims, Jews and Christians all see themselves
as the Kin of Abraham. These Kin of Abraham share many important laws which
they are commanded to do. One of these laws is to hate injustice.
Many objective global citizens believe Israel to be the last remaining modern
nation/state utilizing apartheid styled laws, these citizens include amazingly
large numbers of Jews, including Israelis. Are these apartheid laws unjust?

Ask
those early Hebron Jewish settlers like Nathan Chofsi, some
of whom a few years ago came back to demonstrate on behalf of their former
Palestinian neighbors. Or ask Rabbi Kahane, who although condemned by
the government of Israel supports his still widely read claims by both the Bible
and other recognized rabbinical authorities on the 613 commandments of Moses:

The children of Israel are about to set foot into the land of
Israel., . . God
does not ignore the fact (like we do today) that
there is a definite "Canaanite
problem," and he gives the solution straight up:. . . (see
Rambam, Hilchot Milachim, Ch.6 . . .)

. . . they can remain in the
land as long as they agree to the
conditions of obeying the seven Noachide
Laws, taxes, and
servitude. If this is unacceptable to them,
they have the right to
leave the country immediately. Their final
option is to stay and
fight to prevent the Jews from settling the land, and
the halacha
regarding their entire population of men, women, and children
is:
"And thou shalt not allow a soul to live."

It would not be holy for the Holy Land to be ruled by the often suggested
three way truce. It would not be holy for there to be ANY state in God's
holy land. Instead the Holy Land WILL only end up under the rule of whichever of
the three Kin who can become the most followable, not whoever becomes the most
powerful. All three of these Kin claim to believe in God's stated will for this
land. Surely, none of those who believe this, from either of these faiths, will
have the slightest concern which one of the three, the most followable might
become. Besides, the rest of this world is getting pretty sick of the many failings
of all all three of us. Perhaps, the concept of a Holy House, a place of
prayer for all nations needs to start locally first, before globally. Maybe the
Prince of Peace is only awaiting a unified three-way invitation from those who
all claim to believe in a similar Messiah, with roughly the same mission. Maybe
these three need that little child who will lead them, as implied in Isaiah
(. . .and a child will lead them) or that 80's movie about the little kid who gets
all the sports figures to resign over nuclear weapons, "Amazing Grace and Chuck."

. . . this is the question?

Just who is it that will make the Holy Land Holy. Which of these Kin of Abraham,
IF ANY, that can become humble and trustworthy enough to become followable by the
other two: this -- this is the question? The only question. May the "least"
one win. And soon!!

Tikkun MagazineJewish PeriodicalNot In My Name
Jews against Israeli oppressioAbout the Neturei Karta
The name was adopted by a group of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem who refuse to
recognise the
existence
or authority of the so-called "State of Israel". Yesh Gvul,
The movement for IDF men refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories
Rabbis for Human Rights
Jews Not Zionists
"To ensure that Zionism should never be confused with Judaism.
This site
was established by Jews who are loyal to the Torah and who are not intoxicated
with Zionism.
Israel is NOT a Jewish state, it is a Zionist state. There
is nothing Jewish about it."Not in Our Name Coalition
And remember what our own history tells us:
Silence
in the face of injustice is complicity with injustice.
The
following is an open letter from an ad hoc group of Jewish women activsts.
Bat Shalom, Israeli Women for Peace

"We could have made only one belief, but for each peoples we have appointed different
laws and rites,
so instead; compete in good works and argue kindly;
for there is no compulsionin religion."
Qur'an 2:256, 5:48, 22:37, 29:46